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Abstract
The Republic of Serbia suffers severe consequences caused by extreme weather and climatic
events. Impact of these events on agriculture is significant, especially having in mind the
link of agriculture to the wider scope of implementation sustainable development concept.
This paper has as a main goal to promote a strategic approach to protect agriculture from
these negative impacts. Using social science methodology, after analyses of numerous data
source, authors in the paper shows the existing gap in this field. Hence, results confirmed that,
the weakest link in the agriculture protection lies in inadequate level of coordination between
stakeholders, and insufficient response capacities of local communities.
Recommendation is that Serbia should address needs for create action in a process of
mitigation consequences caused with extreme weather and climatic events on through broad-based
collaboration among all stakeholders. After that action local community will be able
to improve its sustainable development performance.